Novel therapeutic targets in depression and anxiety: antioxidants as a candidate treatment.

The authors start by exploring the connection between nutrition and depression, in which nutrition can play a key role in the onset, severity and duration of depression. The most well-known eating patterns indicative of depression — such as poor appetite, skipping meals, and a strong desire for sweet foods — also occur in the lead […]

First to do so, Firth et. al (2019) conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at the overall evidence of dietary interventions for improving symptoms of depression and anxiety. The 16 randomised controlled trials included a total of 45,826 participants, and reported shifts in depression and/or anxiety symptoms in clinical and non-clinical populations (all but […]